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Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 – November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942 for her novel In This Our Life. [1] . She published 20 novels, as well as short stories, to critical acclaim.
Ellen Glasgow (born April 22, 1873, Richmond, Va., U.S.—died Nov. 21, 1945, Richmond) was an American novelist whose realistic depictions of life in her native Virginia helped direct Southern literature away from sentimentality and nostalgia.
Ellen Glasgow changed the course of Southern literature in the 1890s in her striking departure from traditional Southern literary fare dominated by Thomas Nelson Page’s fictional accounts of the plantation myth.
American writer Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow won a Pulitzer Prize for In This Our Life (1941), her realistic historical novel of Virginia. Born into an upper-class Virginian family, Glasgow at an early age rebelled against traditional expectations of women and authored 20 bestselling novels.
Ellen Glasgow. Biography. Ellen Glasgow is one of those Southern women writers ( Caroline Gordon and Ellen Douglas are other obvious examples) who has not had the recognition she deserves, in part because she is Southern.
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May 11, 2018 · Ellen Glasgow. The works of American novelist Ellen Glasgow (1873-1945) constitute a social history in fiction of Virginia from the Civil War to World War II. Her novels are distinguished in style and conception. Ellen Glasgow was born on April 22, 1873, in Richmond, Va.
Apr 24, 2019 · Ellen Glasgow (b. 1873–d. 1945) was born in Richmond, Virginia. She enjoyed a career spanning nearly half a century as the author of poetry, short stories, novels, and nonfiction.
Ellen Glasgow’s twenty-three published books include novels, short stories, poetry, criticism, and an autobiography. She is best known for her novels, particularly Barren Ground (1925), The...
Examine the life, times, and work of Ellen Glasgow through detailed author biographies on eNotes.
Ellen Glasgow was an American novelist who portrayed the changing world of the contemporary South. She won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942 for her book 'In This Our Life'. Books. This list of books are ONLY the books that have been ranked on the lists that are aggregated on this site.
